It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment when I fell in love with my husband. But I've narrowed it down to two places, one of which was Goldie's Deli in Belle Meade Plaza. So it is with great melancholy that I report today's closing of Goldie's.
Now located in Sylvan Park, where it moved two-and-a-half years ago, the traditional Jewish deli served lox, latkes and a matzoh ball soup good enough to make a shiksha consider converting. Our family favorite was the corned beef hash-and-eggs with a side of latkes with applesauce and sour cream. One of the greatest controversies of our marriage centered around the use of grape jelly on said latkes. I contended the purple schmear added an unnecessary plastic tinge to the otherwise perfect brown lace of deep-fried potato shreds. He maintained that a latke without grape jelly was just hash browns. Yet even with such ideological differences, our mixed marriage thrived in the narrow black-and-white shotgun room that once housed Schwartz's Deli, near the old Mills bookstore.
